Knoxville is surrounded by mountains that protect it from most weather harshness, but I can’t go a whole winter without snow, so we drove to the mountains today. We went tubing and then made it to the pass into the higher elevations of the Smokies just as they opened it. The drive through the mountains, all frozen white was incredibly gorgeous. The boys even put their Nintendos down long enough to look out the windows and stare at the beauty. “This is screensaver quality!”